Mediterranean in Bodrum

Gault&Millau Türkiye Best Seafood 2024-2025-2026, the Istanbul fish house's chef-driven summer outpost on Sess Türkbükü pier.

Italian dining room at Mandarin Oriental's Paradise Bay, Chef Fabio De Paolis, Haute Grandeur 2018 Best Mediterranean and Italian Cuisine in Europe.

Casa Dell'Arte's seaside Italian dining room, wood-fired fish, fresh pasta, art-hotel setting

Erhan Usta's fish house on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1983, still the chef's name on the door

Lucca Bebek's evening Türkbükü dinner room on Cennet Koyu, fire-baked pizzas, wood-grilled seafood and an award-winning bar.

Chef Nilay Lale's Khai Hotel signature room on the Yahşi pier, modern Aegean meets Asian technique.

The Kumbahçe seafood room with a Michelin Green Star and one menu for the whole house each night

Susona's Michelin Guide-listed dining room, Gürkan Tümsek's micro-local Aegean kitchen, zero-waste, vegetable-forward

A bougainvillea-shaded hilltop terrace that has been the Gümüşlük sunset for two decades

Gümüşlük's defining seafood house, where Istanbul tables run two seatings on August nights

Family-run beach hotel restaurant on Torba Bay, Mediterranean and Mexican kitchen under Chef Eduardo Luna

A small Adliye Sokak family kitchen, a meze tray and a chalkboard fish list, and a returning crowd that knows the names

Türkbükü pier institution since 1970, the bay's longest-running family-run fish house, candlelit dinner over the sea.

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

Chef Murat Deniz Temel and Kerem Tanel's 2025 Türkbükü opening, Aegean and Anatolian flavours with a sunset pier bar.

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

Gündoğan's seaside fish house, run by Chef Ali Akbalık and the village's first reference for two decades

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

The Akyarlar harbour fish house run by the same family since 1986, with Kos a sunset away across the strait

The Gümüşlük meze house's Türkbükü sister, on Liman Caddesi with thirty cold and hot starters

A long-running Türkbükü waterfront classic that runs serious seafood by night

An intimate Türkbükü beachfront kitchen with a small chef-led menu that turns over with the season

The Marmara's hilltop terrace, Hakan Süve's Mediterranean kitchen, Michelin Guide listed, four İncili pearls, and the city's best castle view

A quieter alternative on the Gümüşlük iskele, run by a fishing family

A long-running fish house at the western Bodrum harbour, with a serious raki sofrası

Garden-style Aegean cooking in an old village house behind the marina

An understated Bitez seafront fish house that runs to the proper meyhane register